Michigan Thursday: When the World Ends

The Dave Matthews Band has a famous song called, "When the World Ends".   Watching sports and ESPN last night, that song played in my head.  The Big Ten will remove all fans from its basketball tournaments, same with the NCAA Basketball Tournament.   The NBA has suspended the season after Rudy Gobert got the virus and Michigan Football canceled it's Spring Game/Practice.  

Michigan and OSU has also suspended recruiting on and off campus.

Nebraska head coach Fred Hoiberg went to the hospital and for awhile all Big Ten teams were quarantined last night.  He was found to not have the COVID 19.

There is even talk that they might cancel the entire Big Ten tournament and its questionable at best if Michigan takes the floor against Rutgers at noon today.

Hell, Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson have the virus but they are in Australia.   I guess this is another example of Tom being quarantined on a Island with Wilson.

Crazy times.

• Saddi Washington seems to be a top candidate for the WMU head coaching role.  Washington played at Western.  

• Modell's Sporting Goods is bankrupt and will close all stores.

• It is expected that Michigan's Football Spring Practice will continue as planned.  

• Don seems to be taking responsibility (in the following quote) when his defense has played poorly in every big game:  “We just need to play the way we’re capable of playing,” Brown said. “Know that sounds like rhetoric, but don’t make the stage too big, and certainly just prepare and play the game the way you’re capable of playing it. Just play at a high level, make sure we’re prepared. Really, the big thing that we’ve done a good job of, we’re building it into our practice schedule. But, stay even-keeled about it, make sure that we’re focused on the task at hand. Technique and fundamentally, we’ve gotta just play the game the way we’re capable of playing. Don’t make the stage too big.”

from The BIG HOUSE Blog http://mbighouse.blogspot.com/2020/03/michigan-thursday-when-world-ends.html